Victim said shooter claimed he was officer

STOCKTON -- A man dropping off a friend in the 600 block of South Aurora Street about 9:15 p.m. Sunday told police that someone claiming to be an undercover officer tried to take his car.

A black man, standing 6 feet tall, weighing 200 pounds, wearing a gray hooded sweatshirt and blue jeans, and armed with a black semiautomatic pistol approached the victim, said he was an undercover police officer and told him to get out of the car, according to a police report.

The victim drove off, but the man fired several rounds at the vehicle, striking it several times, police reported.

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